Category: News

Professional bodies over-taxing solicitors to tune of £2.4 million, says top regulator

Practising fee remains steady despite tumbling Solicitor Regulation Authority costs, as Law Society wants a bigger slice of pie

Aug 25 2015 9:19am

Porn star flashes breasts at judge during video-link hearing

Criminal court judge left stunned as erotic actress-turned-escort enters her assets into evidence during court session

Aug 24 2015 4:13pm

Law Society drops Lord Harley redaction clanger

Technology confounds solicitor profession chiefs as confidential elements of Blacker case are easily accessed

Aug 24 2015 3:09pm

Solicitors Regulation Authority says sorry to Lord Harley for ‘causing distress’

"Harry Potter" lawyer receives written apology over lost file fiasco, but independent complaints body clears regulator of discrimination

Aug 24 2015 12:30pm

Campaigners bid to block development plans that would ‘devastate’ Inner Temple library

Online petition launched, but so far signatures are sparse

Aug 24 2015 9:43am

BLP retains 71% of its trainees while Clifford Chance keeps 96%

Contrasting retention fortunes between mid-tier and aristocrats

Aug 21 2015 1:19pm

The Judge Rules: Accelerated courses — students need to beware

How much sympathy should we feel for the seven students whose firms dropped training contract offers after they failed BPP’s speedy-LPC?

Aug 21 2015 10:03am

Solicitor struck off after fiddling train fares to pay LPC debts

Tribunal accepted young lawyer was under huge post-education financial pressure -- but fraud is fraud

Aug 21 2015 9:29am

City firms fall over themselves to trumpet benefits of working one day-a-week from home

'Agile working' is the latest corporate law trend

Aug 20 2015 4:57pm

Personal injury solicitor storms off football pitch to head-butt supporter

Regulator to investigate lawyer’s park footie behaviour after he pleaded guilty to GBH

Aug 20 2015 11:43am

Pictures emerge of proposed Lincoln’s Inn ‘education bunker’

But no official comment on price tag or suggestions that inns are getting back into vocational training game

Aug 20 2015 9:41am

Solicitors’ profession keeps growing like Topsy — up 18% over five years

But with training contracts gradually evaporating and government reforms of legal aid system kicking in, could the party be over?

Aug 19 2015 12:55pm

Mayer Brown reveals 55% autumn newly qualified lawyer retention rate

Global giant will keep six of its 11 September qualifying cohort, with a further lawyer remaining on temporary contract

Aug 19 2015 12:20pm

Aspiring barrister and ex-Herbert Smith Freehills paralegal killed in family home

The 31-year-old woman was found dead at a property in northwest London at the end of last week

Aug 19 2015 11:19am

University of Law extends money back guarantee to out-of-work GDL students

Fee rebate scheme could see ULaw paying out more to students who fail to bag jobs after graduating

Aug 19 2015 9:25am

Law student was Briton killed in Bangkok terror attack

Vivian Chan was doing a law degree at BPP University in London

Aug 18 2015 3:34pm

BPP big wigs silent as failed students are reported sacked from training contracts

Accelerated course disaster for seven wannabes -- but law school won’t comment

Aug 18 2015 12:27pm

Bar students are getting even worse at ethics, official report shows

If four-year trend continues, more than half of those on the BPTC are likely to fail ethics module at first go next year

Aug 18 2015 9:02am

Tribunal slaps young solicitor, 30, for faking orthopaedic expert reports

Junior is hit with an indefinite suspension and a £10,000 costs order into the bargain

Aug 17 2015 1:58pm

Oxford University law student jailed for punching woman in nightclub

A 20 year-old Oxford law student gets nine-months' porridge after conviction for “sustained assault” on a young woman that left her with a broken nose

Aug 17 2015 12:18pm